New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-10-03
PREACHERS WORTH HEARING
DIR. JOSEPH PARKER. OF LONDON, IN THE
PLYMOUTH PULPIT.

PHI IOxA
TEE CHURCH FILLED WITH PEOPLE EAGER TO
HEAR MIR. BEECHERS FRI.ND-HIS TOUCH
ING REFERENCE TO THE DEAD PASTOR.
Tbe anxiety to hear Dr. Joseph Parkers first sermon
IN Plymouth Church yesterday served to draw crowd
% Brooklyn such has not been seen there
sines Mr. Beocher's funeral Before the church bell
rang at O'clock many Of the pewholders were In their
places and throng OF strangers had begun 70 ga'her
outside the DOORS whore Senator Grswold directed ne
stream of those entitled enter before the general pup
lie admitted.
ng the hour Of opening the the church
was crowded every nook aud corner hundreds OF peo
Mo standing wherever they might sec or hear the
preacher and other hundreds Of persons turned away
from the church hopeless of gaining entrance
Mrs. Parker sat with Mrs. Beecher in what has been
known as the Paste RS Pew " for forty years
LOVING MESSAGES FROM HOME.
DR. Parker entered with Assistant Pastor Halliday
upon the platform were great punches Of golden rod and
oxeyed daisies While the audience was assembling Or
gsnist Tballom played Mendelssohns Songs without
Words Just before service the following messages
were received by DR.. Parker:
limiting with many In all OF interest aud AZ
fiction Csixned) MORGAN RICHARDS. City Temple
We wish great success and Gsds Sie ssh,
The appearance of the telegraph messenger boy In the
pulpit excited much interest In tho congregation.
In the rst prayer Parker said Ave bless Thee for
great men who have led world sweetened it. who
have brought messages midnight to bless and brighton
rssty to Mr. sa1 BescSsr Mr. Halliday anasunced
the sermon that hearty welcome to Plymouth Churcn
Mr Bsecher in the preachers opening words brought
tears to many eyes and secured with his utter
by his surroundings and showed great emotion He is
aympahetc aud magnetic speaker ana az Times rose %
in minor key. His voice has wdo range and Is finely
SG s oS IN the Of
In all the eloquent passages however, the accent osap
pearod
WHAT DIR. PARKER SAID.
"Not here. risen,. the subject Of the sermon
which based the words He u not here put
risen" uke XIV 81, and was substantially rs follows;
7 am confident that in view of the pathetic circum-
stances which give uniqueness to this OCCASION may
heart We have not assembled under ordinary cond
lions. For nearly forty years this particular SUNDAY
appearance of an honored fllustrious pastor In
sense full of mOurnful suggestiveness " he Is not
here. We feel indeed that he Is not here without
any words being spoken to remind us Of the fact We
know it by the GOODNESS, the loneliness ana inc sense
upon the mortality man, the preacher is apt to be
regarded speaking only that which is tne yefi ss
death taken him out of our sight. that we must
all die, is TO be condemned at once as speaking 'ru
ISM trite and comparatively worthless
There are who have genius for the
degradation of all life to the level of commonplace
They can soon through all the miracles OF HE.
lovecst landscape and nothing In II, OF VINO ms
ace bmt aerWard Everything would be common
mlar and disregarded? What is true OF landscape
wears of age who have gaopcd through the galleries of
Europe and have seen nothing in them worth ~
over glance and all Is DONE hurried pointing oi
the finger to some masterpiece and the whole mira
Gle is gone forever
What is true Of the landscape and Of art is true also
of what we are accustomed to regard as the mirac
of HOLY Scripture. They soon cease TO be miracles
tn those who look upon everything with eye which
does not see the true unity meaning of the uni
verse. Having seen one miracle, we want 10 see
another and having seen two we think we have seen
aII. and
and thus to be miracles, our surprise nes uh,
BEYOND this heTS as the the
the Bible itself To many men the Bbie has become
a book of commonplace or a book 0f aosufnt"s.
sneak now of those who know the letter only and
not the spirit men who have book, but not reveia,
ton men who only the appearance of the surface
and do penetrate to the inner or vitazng energy
THE DOCTRINE OF THE RESURRECTION.
But this text point to absence in any sense
that suggests melancholy. The angel might have
spoken in different tone had he been speaking about
different person he might have said, He Is not here
he has persisted in his own corruption; he has sunk
into deserved oblivion contempt and men would
no more think OF recalling him than they would think
Of recalling a pestlence. The angel, however, Is
speaking of Jesus Chlt, and in declaring that he was
not grave he declared the sublime doctrine Of
the resurrection of the dead Negatfon. even in its
emptiness aIi This text begins negatively, but ends
risen and therefore here than ever--hcre In
filler personality, in richer influence, in tenderer
That which was local, limited, physical, dspropor-
tonao or buensome is not here, Is forever done away
with, the immortal quality, the radiant santli-
ness the loyal spirituality, are alive forevermorc;
Thus ascension is not only the best explanation Of
presence 1t Is the body that has disappeared, but
the soul tarres to bless solitude WIN MOI, Dip
The visible shadow has gone up, but the inward ngh,
shines with larger and steader radiance We speak
thus as We would speak of the dawn Men go to see
the dawn and 10 when they return 10 look again upon
the whitening east the whole SKY seems TO say, The
IL here- hut =
toward noond day."
CHILD LIFE AND SEED TINE COMPARED.
So we speak Of the growing child we think we vii
return and rencw intimacy with the little life that
blessed us long ago we will hear the same pratue
listen TO the same cooling and delight ourselves with
the same ntimacies and 10 when we return we seem
TO hear voice which says the child Is not here bu
has grown into the boy, and has risen from the boy
TO the man. and is the way to angelhood and celcs
t,al perfecton What Is true of ths dawning day and
the growing child also Of the seed time Nature
COWS I'm due course the seed the season not here
n bas past-t has risen so the summer and into tn:
harvest and men are enisEns sayes The
difficulty however, Is not In ascension pu, ID hc~ia
tlon To DO here in any bodily and real sense ~
and brighter sphere To DO here indeed Is evcImore
painful burden IT Is felt V What Ss 50 rs ws Whittier
90 wei What is this burning awful fcverea ire - -
fun o. g.1s so august We know Of b
dificuitics of incarnation at many points OF lie.
For example, we know how per3ns Unen men u Who
%ya swayed us by their thoughts or thrown upon Su
Whale Ifs the spell of their genius 80 iohg a. 'nn9
.vd afar oH clothed with their spiritual mousse an
sarSine with their spiritual functions we give then
homage but when they come near Us we may m "e ner
n,t 81 or surprised or annoyed through SOME pr
snai inrmity some conceit Of manner soe , owe
~ habit and we may come to regret me day s 's
vi -, l., the fesh the who by their genus ci,
s.ntrd and blessed lives. 80 dangerous - a
ton The spirit always suffers through on case All con
iroversy and live life Of mutual NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. GIN
appreciation.
TIKI DANGERS OF INCARNATION.
Incarnation in every form and sense OF inc VIZ -,
,' ,eaor,,v IL Is So for example, In tn
an 80 The EXPRESSION Of thought. Who ever san
ns"c,sev what he wanted to convey; that is to say
go. az complste,y cmpued his mind of his though